Uncontrollable hyperthermia in acute cerebral injury — A Case report
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392 Received: May 11, 2009. Revised: 1st, May 22, 2009; 2nd, June 8, 2009. Accepted: June 12, 2009. Corresponding author: Young Hwan Kim, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Paik Hospital, Inje University College of Medicine, Gaegeum-2dong, Busanjin-gu, Busan 614-735, Korea. Tel: 82-51-890-6520, Fax: 82-51-891-1455, E-mail: [email protected] Copyright c Korean Society of Anesthesiologists, 2009 cc This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Fig. 1. The brain CT shows the acute hemorrhage in the right basal ganglia. Uncontrollable hyperthermia in acute cerebral injury — A Case report—
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